The "concept" that I had for something like this is to have a 1000 trucks deliver a letter to the capitol of every state.
That would be 200 trucks per state.
One every 5 minutes to the capitol starting at 8 AM until they are all delivered.
They are simply delivering a package to the governor. The fact it's simply a letter, oh well.
The high cost of fuel...time to unite on a shutdown and do something about it.
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That was an interesting time when that strike occurred. We do need to get new people in the congress (and White House) that are not career politicians or lawyers. We need average citizens in public office who will serve and then go home. One reason so many companies moved operations out of this country involved a number of issues. Public policy (government) was a big one. Some tired of high taxes, EPA and other regulations as well as unreasonable union demands. The government actually had incentives to encourage companies to relocate. Eliminating the tariffs on imports also encouraged many to leave the U.S. To some degree I agree about not paying attention to political parties. Unfortunately, we need to look at the party as well as the individual. These days most will follow the party line. That is how Obamacare was passed. No one read the bill and it was pushed by the Democrats without anyone from either party having read it. The same think happened with the banking bailout. Our elected representatives were irresponsible in their duty to the American people when they passed two of the biggest spending bills in history without having read either of them. Now, we are dealing with the aftermath. I wish party affiliation didn't matter, but it does. It wasn't always that way.Mommas_money_maker Thanks this. -
Truckers can go on strike. It isn't illegal, yet. I believe you are probably thinking about government workers. If you work for the government it is illegal to go on strike, at least the federal government. -
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I wish you guys luck on that, though I think the government and corporations have too much power now and can do whatever they want. They may allow you guys to protest until you go broke and then when you go back to work nothing will change.
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It's always the "poor driver" attitude, we don't have it any better or worse than many other jobs out there. -
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Give us a real reason to strike because shutting down every tanker in the country will make fuel scarce and cost whole lot more making the general public mad at us by having the opposite effect on what the strike is suppose to be about.
If you want to strike over something that make rates higher, wages higher and the highways a whole lot safer, strike over the requirements to get a CDL to be alot harder with a higher level including at a minimum 500 hours with a DOT certified trainer in the passenger seat signing off and being liable for the conditional permited CDL driver before that driver can get a full blown CDL.
This would drive up training cost by a huge amount with the training mill companies and make a veteran CDL holder worth alot more money in wages. Trucking companies will do alot more for drivers to keep them instead of having the option to hire a 2 week trucking driving school wonder that does nothing but drive wages and rates down.
Keeping and retaining higher paid drivers with more experience will make the highways safer that would also drop insurance cost for most companies too.
This is just my opinion and you guys can strike over fuel cost all you want, just don't include me until you come up with a better reason to strike.BigBadBill Thanks this.
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